Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-02-25

shingles, sash, and doors were required.
building Of rinks also gave Il good deal
of work TO carpenters. The cost of build
ing toooggan slide, 40 feet high and
III feet long, ought not TO exceed 1926
for material and labor.
MISSIONARY stationed on an island in
Terra del Fuego say. there is a fair diYis
ion of labor between the mon and the
women, but one curious custom exists.
Tho men make and fit up the canoes, but
the women are the rowers. Tho result is
that the women are good swimmers, but
the men can not swim Mt all. The rea-
son ia that often on the coast there is not
n single tree to which TO fasten the canoes.
The wemen, therefore, after landing their
husbands, have to row the canoes to u
spot whore seaweed has been massed to-
gether in order to moor the canoes there
on; after which operation they are com
PEELED to swim back. SO, also, when the
canoe is wanted, the women have to swim
out for it and row back for their hus
bands.
NEW use for photography is noted by
the Camera magazine. Recently a child
apparently in full health and with a clear
skin was pictured. The negative showed
the face to be thickly covered with erup-
tion. Thtee days afterward the child was
covered with spots duo to prickly heat.
The camera had seen and photographed
the eruption three days before it was Wis
ible to the oye. Another case of some
what similar kind was also noticed, whore
a child showed spots on his portrait which
were invisible on his face Il fortnight
previous to an attack of small pox. 1t is
suggested that these cases might point
to new method of the medical dag
nosis.
GEN. ARMSTRONG, eff the Hampton, Va,
institute, says about 225 Indian graduates
have been sent back to the Indian coun-
try, ana they have become teachers, far
mers, mechanics and clerks. About one
third of them are moro or loss fickle and
do not succeed i'll life. The educated In
dian has this great disadvantage: All his
INDECENT kin crowd around him TO be
cared for. Self esteem is a prominent
Indian trait. An earthquake can't shake
the respect which an Indian has for him
self. Nothing can lower it and nothing
can raise il. An Indian maiden would
not feel colnplimented by attentions from
white man any more than would be the
case with Caucasian belle. In any pres
encs the red man is content to know that
he is an Indian, and his calm self res pect
is never disturbed
THE Boston journal of Chemistry
notes the curious fact that the great mass
of the brain with all its eanglia of gray
matter, forming the medium of intellec-
tual power, is entirely without sensation.
Mechanical irritation does not produce
the slightest convulsive movement on the
muscles below. The only portions OF the
brain that are followed by convulsive
movements by irritation ars the lower
and central PORTIONS, forming the con
tinuation OF the spinal cord, And these
are the only portions OF the organ that
give rise to painful sensations when irri
tatsd. The most central portions of the
nervous system, particularly the gray
matter. are destitute both of excitahility
and sensibility. II is only those portion.
which serve to conduct sensations ant
nervous impulses that can be excited b,
mechanical irritation.
REPRESENTATIVES, of the princips
builders associations throughout tn,
country will meet at Chicago March %
to form a national association to secur
uniformity of action, especially in re
gard to strikes and labor troubles, thougl
the circular that is sent out does no
phrase it so bluntly as that. A prelimin.
airy conference extending through thre
days was held in Boston last month, 8
which the building associations of L
cities were represented. This confer
cnce arranged for the Chicago ronven
tion, to which the building association
of all cities of 10000 inhabitants are ask
ed to send not ever seven delegates
Doubtless the national association the
to be formed will take steps to put il
self in as good position of defense a
possible against strikes, but then sr
other important matters on which un
formity is desirable, notably the bouI
of labor, which now vary from eight I
ten in different cities.